Washing-machine



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J A MENGEL WASHING MACHINE.

Patented June 19; 1894;

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J. A. MENGEL.

. WASHING MACHINE.

No. 521,506. Patented June 19,1894.

Z I V/l/I/ll/l/I/I/l/II/I/II/lI/I/I/I/IIIIII/I/Il. Mill-El VII/IIl/I/II/I/IlI/III/Il NITED STATES PATENT ()FFICE.

JOSEPH A. MENGEL, OF MOKEANSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

WASHING-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 521,506, dated June 19, 1894. Application filed August 29, 1893- Serial No. 484,305. (No model.)

new and useful Improvements in Washing Machines; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My present invention relates to washingmachines, has especial reference to that class of machines known as rotary washing-machines, and has for its object certain improvements in construction which will be fully disclosed in the following specification and claims.

In the accompanying drawings which form part of this specification Figure 1 represents atop plan view; Fig. 2a side elevation; Fig. 3 a vertical section; Fig. 4 an enlarged detail sectional view'of the operating mechanism; Fig. 5 a vertical longitudinal section of the bar which engages the inner tub; Fig. 6 a detail of the hinge; Fig. 7 a top plan view of a section of the bottom of the tub, and Fig. 8 an inverted plan of a section of the rubber.

Reference being had to the drawings and the letters thereon A indicates an outer stationary tub supported upon suitable legs a a a, and is provided with a cover bshown secured by detachable or separable hinges c 0 so that it may be readily removed and again secured in position on the tub, or it may be secured in any desirable manner. When thrown back upon its hinges the cover b rests upon a support 07-. On the upper surface of the cover is a bracket e having two legs f g, and a boss h in the center of the horizontal bar of the bracket, and between the legs of the bracket are two horizontal master gear-wheels B, O, lying in parallel planes and having teeth on their adjacent or inner surfaces; and between said gear-wheels and engaging therewith is a pinion D mounted upon a shaft E which is supported at its inner end in leg g of the extends upward from the hub n and with a sleeve 0 which extends downward through the cover b, and is provided at its lower end with a head 19 to which the barFis pivotally secured at q to vibrate vertically with the revoluble tub G with which said bar engages.

Upon the upper end of the sleeve m rests a side and is provided at each end with alatch a, which latches are secured to leaf springs 'v o to force the latches down into the notches 20 win the upper edge of the tub G. The bottom of the tub G is perforated to admit water thereto, as shown at X in dotted lines in Fig. 3 and on the inner surface of the .bottom are rubbers formed of strips of wood y y. The tub is provided with a pintle a. which rests in a step b in the bottom 'of' the outer tub and upon which the tub revolves. The rubber H consists of a disk, preferably of wood having radial strips 0 on its inner surface and the rubber is vertically adjustable in the tub G, so that the rubber will adjust itself to any quantity of cloths in the tub. The tub G and the rubber H revolve in opposite directions, and in the use of the machine the crank k is turned in one direction a suitable number of revolutions and is then reversed and turned in the opposite direction thus also reversing the motion of the tub and the rubber. The centrifugal force of the revolving tub G causes it to rock or sway in its revolutions which necessitates the verticalvibratory motion of the bar F'to keep the latches u u in engagement with the notches w w in the tub. The annular chamber I around the tub G and the space K below the tub afford ample water-space and the water is kept in constant circulation through the cloths being washed.

Having thus fully described my invention, What I claim is=- 1. A washing-machine, comprising an outer stationary tub provided with a cover, an in nor revoluble tub communicating with the outer tub and a. revoluble and vertically adjustable disk rubber, in combination with mechanism supported upon the cover of the outer tub for revolving said inner tub and rubber in opposite directions.

2. In a washing-machine, the combination of an outer tub, an inner revoluble tub,teommunicating with the outer tub, a transverse bar engaging the upper edge of the inner tub and connected to a revoluble sleeve extending through the cover of the outer tub, a vertically adjustable and revoluble rubber and suitable gearing to revolve the inner tub and the rubber in opposite directions.

JOSEPH A. MENGEL.

Witnesses:

HARRY W. SHAPPELL, HARRY M. ZULICK. 

